Installation

Tide ships as a single self-contained binary. The installer detects your platform, downloads the binary, verifies its checksum, and puts it on your PATH.

Install

curl -sSf https://install.tide.run/install.sh | sh

The installer:

• detects your platform (macOS arm64, Linux x86_64, Linux aarch64),
• resolves the latest stable version from the release channel manifest,
• downloads the tarball and its .sha256 sidecar, and refuses to install if the checksum does not match (fail-closed — the only integrity gate on a curl … | sh),
• installs tide to ~/.tide/bin/tide, and
• appends ~/.tide/bin to your PATH in your shell rc (.zshrc, .bashrc, or .profile).

Restart your shell, or add the binary to your PATH for the current session:

export PATH="$HOME/.tide/bin:$PATH"

Then verify:

tide --version

There is no toolchain manager and nothing else to provision — the shipped binary even embeds Argon, so workflows that drive an ontology need no separate ox toolchain or daemon.

Pin a version

The installer takes the latest stable release by default. Pin an exact version with TIDE_VERSION:

TIDE_VERSION=0.1.0 curl -sSf https://install.tide.run/install.sh | sh

Re-running the installer is idempotent — it overwrites the binary in place and will not duplicate the PATH entry.

PATH note

If your shell is not zsh or bash (for example fish), the installer falls back to ~/.profile, which your shell may not source. In that case add ~/.tide/bin to your PATH by hand using your shell's own syntax.

Next

• Your first workflow — write, run, and replay a durable workflow.
• Core concepts — what durable execution buys you.
• Build from source — the from-source path for contributors.